pharmacies are ripe for bigger disruption
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
There’s something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare.
Chemist Warehouse has about 550 retail pharmacies. Sigma has another 400.
Yet the law limits owners to just a handful of pharmacies per state. Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria allow just five, Western Australia and Tasmania allow four,...
